'Calling' in the Bible

He was the one the prophet Isaiah was referring to when he said, "He is a voice calling out in the wilderness: "Prepare the way for the Lord! Make his paths straight!'"

Then calling out to the crowd, he addressed them, "Listen and understand!

Calling a little child forward, he had him stand among them.

When some of the people standing there heard this, they said, "He's calling for Elijah."

He is a voice calling out in the wilderness: "Prepare the way for the Lord! Make his paths straight!'"

So they called the blind man and told him, "Have courage! Get up. He's calling you." He threw off his coat, jumped up, and went to Jesus.

When some of the people standing there heard this, they said, "Listen! He's calling for Elijah!"

as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, "He is a voice calling out in the wilderness: "Prepare the way for the Lord! Make his paths straight!

"Why do you keep calling me "Lord, Lord,' but don't do what I tell you?

So the Jewish leaders were trying all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

When she had said this, she went away and called her sister Mary and told her privately, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you!"

So they were convinced by him. After calling in the apostles and beating them, they again ordered them to stop speaking in the name of Jesus and let them go.

Everyone who heard him was astonished and said, "This is the man who harassed those who were calling on Jesus' name in Jerusalem, isn't it? Didn't he come here to bring them in chains to the high priests?"

Again the voice came to him a second time, "You must stop calling unclean what God has made clean."

He told them, "You understand how wrong it is for a Jew to associate or visit with unbelievers. But God has shown me that I should stop calling anyone common or unclean,

Then the voice from heaven answered a second time, "You must stop calling common what God has made clean!'

according to his calling and not by actions), Rebecca was told, "The older child will serve the younger one."

For God's gifts and calling never change.

Brothers, think about your own calling. Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.

I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to live in a way that is worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

There is one body and one Spirit. Likewise, you were called to the one hope of your calling.

With this in mind, we always pray for you, asking that our God might make you worthy of his calling and that through his power he might help you accomplish every good desire and faithful action.

He saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our own accomplishments, but according to his own purpose and the grace that was given to us in the Messiah Jesus before time began.

Therefore, holy brothers, partners in a heavenly calling, keep your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession.

So then, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election certain, for if you keep on doing this you will never fail.

Then the witnesses heard a loud voice from heaven calling to them, "Come up here!" So they went up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them.